Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDSWhen God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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